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Subject: Re: Ada vs Fortran for scientific applications
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Nasser Abbasi wrote:
> I personally think that one way to make Ada popular for scientific use is to
> publish a version of the Numerical recipes book in Ada.
>
> I have been waiting for this for long time.
>
> This should show the advantages of using Ada for scientific/numerical
> applications.

You cannot do this unless you get the authors of Numerical Recipes on
board, which would probably be difficult. I think a literal translation
of their Fortran or C code to Ada could not be posted online without
their permission.

The GNU Scientific Library (written in C)
http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ is open source. You could write an
open source version in Ada.